All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens s06e22 Mysterious Devices.eng

NARRATOR: A 2,000-year-old computer.

JASON MARTELL: It had more
complicated inner workings

than a modern-day Swiss watch.

NARRATOR: Giant power plants.

GEORGE NOORY: It's very strange,
but it's clearly a battery.

NARRATOR: And weapons more powerful
than anything that exists today.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: It roared, then
flashes of fire came out of it.

NARRATOR: Throughout the world,

there are artifacts and stories that point
to advanced technology in the distant past.

Could these be products of
our ancestors' imaginations?

Or might there be a more
profound explanation?

DAVID CHILDRESS: It sounds fantastic to
us that they could have had some kind of

alien technology.

It's clearly what they're describing.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And, if so, might we find proof
by examining mysterious devices?

NARRATOR: The Giza Necropolis, Egypt. 1993.

A team of engineers uses
a remotely-operated camera

in an attempt to discover the true function

of what is believed to be an airshaft

leading from the supposed queen's
chamber of the Great Pyramid.

First discovered in 1872,

archaeologists long
considered these narrow tunnels

to be ventilation ducts.

MARTELL: This robot traveled
up this small shaft, which was

too small for a human or any
type of device to go through,

and all of a sudden, it finds a closed door

hinged by two little metal clamps.

NARRATOR: According to
mainstream archaeologists,

the door and metal handles
were intentionally built

as a symbolic passageway that
the queen would travel through

to the afterlife.

But some researchers have questioned

why this passageway
would have been designed

with a deliberate blockage,

and why...

on a plateau filled
with monumental pyramids

believed to serve as royal tombs...

is the Great Pyramid the
only one with such a door?

PHILIP COPPENS: Egyptologists
are very much fond of saying that

pyramids are tombs, and that they have
been robbed at some point in the past.

But the fact is that we have
found, in the 20th century,

a number of pyramids whose central
king's chamber, so to speak,

is intact.

And when they opened the sarcophagus,

they found that sarcophagus
to be empty, as well.

NARRATOR: If the Great
Pyramid was not a tomb,

what may have been its true purpose?

In May 2011,

another team of researchers set out
to further explore the blocked airshaft

in the queen's chamber. This time,

the crew used a robot equipped
with a micro-snake camera

to slip through a hole and
reveal what was beyond the door.

MARTELL: When they actually
penetrated this small door,

they found a hidden
room within the pyramid.

CHRISTOPHER DUNN: What they
found was copper fittings,

or the metal fittings.

Another feature of the
back of these metal fittings

was that on one side,

the loop looked like it was corroded.

The camera also looked
down and scanned the floor,

and what we saw was red markings.

My interpretation of those were,

they were electrical symbols.

But why were they there?

NARRATOR: Could these
artifacts be actual evidence

that electricity once
coursed through the structure?

(buzzing)

And if so, could the Great Pyramid of Giza

have been built to
serve as not a royal tomb

but a power plant,

as some researchers contend?

DUNN: If we dismiss the tomb theory,

and we look at the pyramid itself,

we see something that modern engineers

can really tune into and understand.

What we have is a very,
very precise building

that has the precision
of a fraction of an inch,

is something that is very noteworthy

and not indicative of a
simple, agrarian culture.

So, what we have is something
that is almost like a machine.

NARRATOR: If the Great Pyramid
was a sophisticated machine,

potentially capable of creating energy,

how could it have worked?

Some researchers believe clues can be found

by exploring underneath the structure.

In 2000, maritime engineer John Cadman

proposed a theory that the Egyptians
pumped water from the nearby Nile River

into a small chamber
underneath the Great Pyramid.

The pump could then create
intense hydraulic pressure

that would cause the
entire pyramid to vibrate.

JOHN CADMAN: In the subterranean
chamber, there is some evidence

that shows that there had
been water present in it

and that there's water erosion on the floor

and then up in the thin area.

And then, also, because it was a

hydraulic pulse generator.

See how the rarefaction wave,

this extremely low-pressure wave,

which would have struck the ceiling,
and the ceiling is actually chipped.

And that would have been from the acts of

compression waves hitting the
ceiling. That's very evident.

NARRATOR: If Cadman's theory proves true,

what would have been the
purpose of the hydraulic pulse?

Engineer Chris Dunn

believes the answer can be found

by further examination of the shafts
in what some call "the queen's chamber,"

where traces of zinc and drochloric
acid have been discovered.

DUNN: I believe the chemical
coming in through the northern shaft

was hydrated zinc,

and the other chemical coming through
the southern shaft and into the chamber

was dilute hydrochloric acid.

These are actually seen
on the chamber walls.

NARRATOR: Dunn suggests that the two
chemicals were poured down through the shafts

and then mixed together inside the
queen's chamber, triggering combustion.

DUNN: This vessel represents
the queen's chamber.

Into the tubes, we're
going to pour hydrated zinc

and then hydrochloric acid.

When you bring these two liquids together,

and a chemical reaction occurs,

and a product of that
chemical reaction is hydrogen.

And you can see the vapor, the hydrogen,

escaping through the chimney.

And there you have the reaction.

NARRATOR: Dunn speculates
that the hydrogen gas

traveled from the queen's
chamber into the king's chamber.

Then the vibrations from
the subterranean pool

energized the hydrogen atoms
into a microwave energy beam.

DUNN: The evidence that indicates the use of
hydrogen can be found in the king's chamber.

There's a shaft in the king's chamber,

has dimensions of 8.4 by 4.8,

which would be suitable for
a wave guide for a maser,

or a microwave amplification through
stimulated emission radiation.

And from there

we can actually propose many different
ideas of what they did with it.

TSOUKALOS: The ancient
Egyptians demonstrated

an exceptional level of skill

in everything that they
created during the Old Kingdom,

but the question remains:

did they do it on their own?

Or did they have some access

to information or technology
that was not of this earth?

NARRATOR: If Giza was,
in fact, a power plant,

could the energy have been used
for me otherworldly purpose,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

Perhaps further evidence
that advanced technology

really did exist on Earth
thousands of years ago

can be found by examining
yet another mysterious device,

the Ark of the Covenant.

NARRATOR: Approximately 17
miles northeast of Jerusalem

lies the ancient ruins
of the city of Jericho.

Here, archaeologists
have uncovered evidence

of settlements dating back to 9,000 BC. A

ccording to the Hebrew Bible,

Jericho is believed to be
where God spoke to Joshua,

the successor to Moses,

and instructed him to
march around the walled city

once every six days with seven priests

carrying rams' horns, and followed
by the Ark of the Covenant,

the golden chest containing
the Ten Commandments.

Then, on the seventh day,

under orders by God,

Joshua and the Israelites

marched around the perimeter
of the city one last time...

(horns blowing)

... but this time they
blew the rams' horns.

The walls of Jericho fell,

and the city was sacked.

DAVID WILCOCK: In the Old Testament,
you see very clear descriptions

in Joshua 6 about the shofar,

which is described as a trumpet that
was used in the battle of Jericho

to actually bring the walls down.

(horns blowing)

NARRATOR: To religious scholars,

the collapse of Jericho's
walls was a miracle.

To most modern-day
scientists and historians,

the destruction was most
probably caused by an earthquake.

But could it have been something else?

Could the Israelites have possessed
advanced sound wave technology?

If so, where did it come from?

JONATHAN YOUNG: In the scriptures,
we have a fascinating story

about the fall of the walls of Jericho.

Armies were told to circle the
wall repeatedly and then finally

blow their horns, and down came the walls.

And we know there was a powerful presence.

The Ark of the Covenant,
this mysterious, sacred item,

was with them at all
times, which, of course,

was part of the event and part of
the fall of the walls of Jericho.

(horns blowing)

CHILDRESS: The idea that
some kind of sonic weapon

was used to destroy these
huge, thick, ancient walls

to allow the Israelites to

basically take over that
city, is a fascinating one.

So what kind of technology were they using?

It sounds utterly fantastic to us

that they could have had some
kind of advanced alien technology.

It's clearly what they're describing.

TUDOR PARFITT: There is little doubt
that the Ark of the Covenant was a weapon.

It was described as a
weapon, famously, when the

Israelites crossed over into Canaan,
and they had to pass by Jericho.

And it could be that
there was some technology.

NARRATOR: According to many
ancient astronaut theorists,

Moses and the Israelites acquired a
supernatural source of energy at Mount Sinai.

This powerful energy source was later
contained in the Ark of the Covenant

and would have provided
the kind of power necessary

to amplify Joshua's horns,

WILCOCK: The Ark of the Covenant appears
to be some sort of advanced technology.

What's interesting about
the Battle of Jericho

is that this particular use of the shofar

clearly seems to be the same
thing that we're seeing with

particle beam technology,
death ray technology,

thunderbolt technology.

It very clearly seems that, once again,

we have an extraterrestrial technology

that the ancient people had at the ready

that they could use, when
needed, for military campaigns.

NARRATOR: But even if the Israelites possessed
some sort of advanced, extraterrestrial technology,

could the aplified sound of rams' horns

really bring down stone walls?

According to scientist and former
astronaut, Professor Taylor Wang,

recent research into the
field of physical acoustics

suggests it is a distinct possibility.

TAYLOR WANG: Jericho, wall breaking apart.

If you said it has happened,

caused by acoustic, caused by sound...

Well, the possibility has to be, somehow
a resonance is built in that wall.

Ah, may not be the whole wall, may
be some of the structure material,

when that resonance happens,
amplitude gets large enough.

Yes, it could destroy
almost anything. Because

what the resonance does is
store enormous amount of energy.

So you keep on, keep on feeding it.

Eventually, it shatters everything.

MICHAEL DENNIN: When you want
to know how powerful sound is,

you have to realize that the
basic thing that sound is,

is a pressure wave.

And it will come down to the amount
of energy you put into your sound wave,

and whether or not that particular
pressure wave you generate

will couple or impact the
thing you're trying to destroy.

(explosion)

You can make it quite powerful,

'cause you can make a very high
amplitude, very large pressures

in the sound. It might be at a frequency or
amplitude where we no longer hear it as sound,

but from a physics point
of view, it is still sound,

because it's a pressure wave in the air.

So, it can get quite destructive
if you put enough energy into it.

You could also think of
it as a particle weapon,

because you're moving air around,

and you would just need
something to focus the sound,

which we know how to do.

And so that would give you a
directed energy beam with sound.

NARRATOR: Did advanced
extraterrestrial technology

really help the Israelites
survive their exodus in the desert,

as the Hebrew Bible contends?

And, if so, might early
humans have possessed other,

equally astounding technological devices?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe further clues can be found

by examining an object

that dates back to the second century BC,

one that functioned as a computer.

NARRATOR: Did aliens
really inspire our ancestors

to build ancient temples and pyramids?

And if they came here,

did they leave behind any
advanced knowledge of physics,

astronomy or mathematics?

If so, is there any evidence
that remains to this day?

One example might be this one.

Often described as the world's
first mechanical computer,

it dates back over 2,000 years.

CHILDRESS: The Antikythera device was

found in 1900 by sponge divers

diving off a small island in
the Aegean called Antikythera.

There was a shipwreck there,

and in it was a coral-encrusted box,

and it was made of metal alloys.

And it then went to the Athens Museum

where, a good 50 years later,

they were able to x-ray this box

and they were able to discern

cogged wheels that were interconnected

and give us a very good
depiction of what this thing was.

And it is a computer.

It's a really sophisticated machine.

MARTELL: It's a very
interesting piece of technology,

because it served two purposes.

One was that it was an
astronomical device where you could,

by using it, chart your
position to the stars

and navigate your way through the seas.

It was also an astrological device,
so that someone could tell you,

"Ah, if you were born on this date,

and your planet sign is this,

then certain things were
going to happen to you

when the planets are in this alignment."

So, it was a very interesting
piece of technology that, literally,

had more complicated gears and inner
workings than a modern-day Swiss watch.

And it's found to be
dated, I think, like 200 BC.

So, it's really an anomaly as to

who could've created that and
what it was being used for.

CHILDRESS: When archeologists first
started to examine this thing in the 1950s,

they said that they never could
conceive of the ancient Greeks

having such complicated machinery.

And, in fact, they
said, this was tantamount

to finding a jet airplane
in the tomb of King Tut.

NARRATOR: Even older than
the Antikythera mechanism

are these carvings on a wall at
the Dendera Temple complex in Egypt.

To some, the strange
designs look eerily similar

to objects very much in use today.

TSOUKALOS: In Egypt, there
is this underground crypt

at Dendera that was always secret,

and only the high priests
had access to that crypt.

It's very hot in there,
very narrow, low ceiling.

And on the walls, you have these reliefs

of what looks like ancient lightbulbs.

Because we have to question one thing.

How did the ancient Egyptians
light the inside of their tombs?

NARRATOR: According to most
mainstream archeologists,

torches were used by the ancient Egyptians

to light the pitch-black
chambers of tombs and temples.

Yet, nowhere on the ceilings

is there even the slightest
evidence of soot or smoke residue.

TSOUKALOS: There isn't enough
oxygen inside those tombs

with which to support or
feed a flame of a torch.

The only remaining solution is,

by some sort of an artificial light source.

And that is, for example, a lightbulb.

So, at the underground crypt at Dendera,

we find reliefs of such lightbulbs.

NARRATOR: But how could
the ancient Egyptians

have used anything resembling
a modern-day lightbulb

without access to electricity?

After all, electricity wouldn't be
discovered for thousands of years.

That is, of course, with the exception of
what scientists call the Baghdad Battery.

MARTELL: The Baghdad Battery
was discovered in ancient Iraq.

Scholars today say there's no way that ancient
man was using electricity or lightbulbs.

So, they look at this Baghdad Battery...

and there's about a dozen of them
that have been found in Iraq...

and the only mainstream theory is that they
were using it for electroplating jewelry.

NARRATOR: Two major proponents
of ancient alien theory,

Jason Martell and Giorgio Tsoukalos,

demonstrate just how the Baghdad
Battery could generate electricity,

using a modern mock-up of the device.

MARTELL: Well, basically,
this is made out of a clay pot,

clay just found naturally in
that region in Southern Iraq.

And then they would use
a small copper lining

and something along the
lines of an asphalt stopper

wrapped around an iron rod.

And these all applied together

and the combination of some
weak acidic acid... vinegar,

grape juice, orange juice
in this case, wine...

would be able to generate a
charge by combining these elements

with the rod, the iron rod and the copper.

And the combination of that creates
an abundance of, uh, electricity.

So what we're gonna do is, uh,

basically just fill the clay
pot with some orange juice here.

- I'll try not to spill it too much.
- TSOUKALOS: Okay.

MARTELL: And then we'll go ahead
and put the copper rod back in there.

Copper and iron rod.

We'll give it a moment to kind
of fill that copper area there.

And then by turning on the volt meter

and applying this to each side,

we should be able to generate a charge.

- And there it goes, into the positive.
- TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.

MARTELL: And if we give it some
time to get the electrolytes

really buzzing in there, you'll see that
this volt will actually continue to rise.

NOORY: It is a battery.
Everybody agrees with that.

But nobody knows why they
made it and how they made it.

What mind would think of that?

You know, electrical current

back several thousand years ago?

It's very strange, but
it's clearly a battery.

CHILDRESS: The whole idea
that ancient civilizations

actually had knowledge of electricity

and used electricity is an
accepted archeological fact today.

Just like in our own civilization,

where about 200 years ago,

Benjamin Franklin and other
scientists began experimenting with

simple electrical devices,

we now have evidence
that over 3,000 years ago,

people were also experimenting
with electrical devices.

Where might it have led them?

What other electrical devices
would they have been able to create?

I believe they probably created
all kinds of electrical devices.

NARRATOR: Are the Antikythera
device and the Baghdad Battery

evidence that our ancestors really were
in possession of advanced technology?

And if so, might this technology
have had extraterrestrial origins?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further clues may be found

in the story of a top secret Nazi project

simply known as The Bell.

NARRATOR: In a remote valley just
outside Ludwikowice, Poland...

stands a strange circular structure

known as the Henge,

or Fly Trap.

IGOR WITKOWSKI: We are
in the middle of a valley,

which was taken over by the SS

and transformed into a secret research,
development and industrial facility.

It was closely guarded.

Inside of this valley we
have three security rings,

closing specific areas from each other.

Inside of the innermost circle

this structure stands,
and it's quite mysterious.

NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars believe the
structure served as the concrete support base

to a cooling tower used by a coalmine.

But according to Witkowski and others,

the German high command would not have
devoted so many military resources here

if the valley contained
only an energy plant.

They say the Henge was used to
test a new highly advanced machine

known as "Die Glocke," or "The Bell."

JIM MARRS: The Bell, Die
Glocke, was probably one the

top secret projects of the Third Reich.

It was so secret that it's even
unclear on how much Hitler was told.

DR. STEVEN M. GREER: There's a great
deal of evidence that suggests that, uh,

the scientists, including Hermann Oberth

and Wernher von Braun and others,

were working on a bell shaped craft

that was electromagnetic
in its propulsion system.

NARRATOR: Surviving
sketches depict The Bell as

having a ceramic covering

and dimensions measuring ten feet
high and five feet in diameter.

Its design appears contrary to
modern aerodynamic principles.

DENNIN: If you're starting to
think about a bell shape for flight,

the... the challenge
you're facing, I think, is

making it aerodynamic for when
you move around side to side

and forward and backward.

'Cause you're presenting a very
large cross-sectional area to the air.

And you're gonna generate a lot of drag.

So you might be very good if you want just,

like, a hovercraft that went up and down.

But once you start moving, I think
you're gonna run into trouble.

NARRATOR: But if The Bell was not a
new type of aircraft, then what was it?

According to some ancient
astronaut theorists,

The Bell may have been a time machine.

WITKOWSKI: There is a kind of,
uh, vortices named solitons,

which are vortices isolated
electromagnetically from the outside world.

Recent research and experiments show

that the link between gravity
and electromagnetic physics

is much stronger than the
scientists thought for some time.

GREER: The laws of the
universe being universal, if you

take the right electromagnetic
field and very high voltage...

pulse it or phase it in a certain way...

you can get some very strange phenomenon.

You can make things disappear and
reappear. Therefore, it follows to reason

that this would be studied and that the Nazi
Bell was probably an-an attempt by that regime to

develop, uh, some type of flying machine

that would use these sort of
advanced electromagnetic concepts.

NARRATOR: But was time
travel even a possibility?

According to German-born
physicist Albert Einstein,

humans were theoretically capable of it.

DENNIN: His theory of special relativity

actually showed, for the first time, that
time can slow down when you go very fast.

And so that has an impact
on going into the future.

It allows you to travel
really fast somewhere,

and your time goes
slower than somebody else

and you end up in the future, relative
to what you thought you were doing.

The harder one to think
about is general relativity,

where Einstein talks about gravity
and how to describe gravity.

And there you can start
thinking about space-time

and bending it, and actually by
warping space and time in the right way,

you end up going backwards in time.

NARRATOR: While no records exist indicating
The Bell was ever used during the war,

as the Allied military
forces pushed into Germany,

the entire project and its commander...

SS General Hans Kammler...
suddenly disappeared.

MARRS: SS General Hans Kammler, who was
going to defect in exchange for immunity.

But then, by the end of
the war, he disappeared.

So where did Hans Kammler
go, and what did he take?

I think he took The Bell.

Did he create a wormhole?
Did he create a stargate?

And this is what the Nazis were working on.

NARRATOR: Did Kammler and the other Nazis

really use The Bell to escape
justice by disappearing across time?

Or possibly to another planet?

In the spring of 1945,
Germany's war effort collapsed.

And as the Allied armies
advanced towards Berlin,

German scientists and engineers
abandoned their laboratories.

Hitler's search for a wonder weapon failed.

Instead, it was the Americans who
scored the decisive technological edge

with their development of the atomic bomb.

But according ancient astronaut theorists,

a similar and perhaps even
more devastating weapon

had already existed...

unleashed in an area that
is now part of India...

more than 3,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: An unmanned aerial
vehicle hurtles across the sky.

It travels at supersonic speeds,

spitting fire,

launching deadly missiles,

programmed to seek and destroy.

The effect is devastating.

High-tech warfare at its most lethal.

But what could be a page stolen
from a U.S. military black project

is actually a description
written down over 2,500 years ago

in the sacred Hindu text
known as the Mahabharata.

COPPENS: When it comes to
the ancient Indian accounts,

they're really eyewitness
testimony of the gods fighting.

CHILDRESS: When you read
the ancient Hindu epics,

they talk about horrific weapons.

Missiles

and atomic weapons,

massive laser weapons that are
melting and devastating entire cities.

TSOUKALOS: I refuse to think

that our ancestors came up with
these stories out of thin air.

When writing was first invented,

they wrote down their history.

The first things that
were ever written down

were actual events.

NARRATOR: How is it that some
of the earliest written accounts

of warfare describe sophisticated weaponry

that humans wouldn't develop
for thousands of years?

For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists

point to numerous
descriptions of deadly weapons

found throughout the Mahabharata.

Many strikingly similar to
those used by the military today.

One example are the incendiary
weapons wielded by Vishnu,

which are specially equipped
to find their targets.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: Vishnu has a flying
guided missile, the Narayanastra.

And once it is launched, it will
destroy everything that is moving.

So, you know, according to the description,

it is a motion detecting weapon,

which is pretty much
like our modern weaponry.

There is also a weapon
that is heat-seeking.

MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT S. DICKMAN:
Heat-seeking is a very effective way

of finding something.

You would fire a missile
from behind one aircraft

at an aircraft in front of you,

specifically targeted
against the hot engine.

And then you were able to move
off from behind the airplane,

and the heat-seeker would still
be able to find the target.

TSOUKALOS: I am aware

that there are forces of nature.

You've got thunder, lightning,

earthquakes. But how would
you go from witnessing that

to a description of heat-seeking missiles?

NARRATOR: In addition to guided missiles,

the Mahabharata is filled with
accounts of other sophisticated weapons

wielded by the gods.

SHIMKHADA: In the Mahabharata,

And each one has a specific function.

The Pashupatastra is a weapon that actually
multiplies into seven different arrows.

So then it hits seven different
targets at the same time.

Salva is an anti-god.

He can make his vehicle disappear.

So we're talking about a
flying object that is stealth.

And he also can put people into sleep.

So we're perhaps talking about nerve gas.

CHILDRESS: They talk about
weapons that are so high-tech,

that it's... Could only
be from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: But of all the weapons
described in the Mahabharata,

perhaps the most deadly was a
device called the Brahmastra.

A weapon that the texts
warned was never to be used.

SHIMKHADA: Brahmastra is
described as the ultimate weapon.

Once it is launched, it
will simply burn everything.

So it will incinerate the entire universe.

We're talking about a nuclear blast

a hundredfold magnitude of the bomb that we
have seen or experienced in our own times.

Should never be used.

And... and yet someone was going
to make use of that Brahmastra.

So that's the dilemma that the
books talks about in the Mahabharata.

India now has a rocket program,

and one of their rockets is called Shakti.

Shakti means goddess energy.

This is also another divine weapon.

Indians are now sort of going back
to their text or their mythology

and they're reliving it
by their modern technology.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that alien beings
visiting the earth thousands of years ago

dealt with the same issues
of nuclear annihilation

that humans are dealing with today?

And might the deadly weapons currently
being deployed by the world's military

really be recreations of
weapons first used on earth

by extraterrestrials in the ancient past?

Perhaps.

But then it should also be possible

to predict mankind's military future

by searching through
still more ancient texts.

NARRATOR: May, 2010.

Off the coast of California.

A powerful new weapon shoots
down unmanned aerial drones

during secret testing
carried out by the U.S. Navy.

Firing from a warship

at a distance of nearly two miles,

a ray of intense laser energy

burns through targets traveling at speeds

of more than 300 miles per hour.

But is it possible that
such so-called death rays

could have been used before?

Perhaps in ancient times?

GREER: I'm quite convinced that
there have been, in... in the past,

advanced civilizations on Earth
that did have such things as

the so-called death ray.

Whether it was used as a weapon

or whether it was just observed being used

is a very, very open question.

NARRATOR: In 214 BC,

Greeks living in the
Sicilian city of Syracuse

prepared for an attack by
a fleet of Roman warships.

Though outnumbered by a
superior military force,

ancient texts suggest that Syracuse

was well defended by a mysterious
and powerful new weapon.

CHILDRESS: Probably the
most famous ancient death ray

was the one that was built by
the Greek inventor Archimedes.

He was able to create this giant mirror

and parabolic disc and focus
the sun's rays on the fleet

and set these ships on fire.

So here we have what would be a primitive
kind of death ray that really worked.

NARRATOR: But how could
Archimedes have conceived

such a formidable weapon?

One far in advance of
any known at the time?

Researchers suggest the inventor
may have drawn inspiration

from Greek myths written nearly 600
years before the battle of Syracuse.

Myths that told the stories of gods

that brandished cosmic weapons
of incredible destructive force.

WILCOCK: If you look
in the Greek tradition,

they have a very clear
description of Zeus' thunderbolt,

which he was able to point at people or at

other things that he wanted to explode,

hit the button, and what they
described as lightning would come out

and create a fierce and terrible explosion.

NARRATOR: But if death ray type weapons

had been used in ancient times,

might there be some sort of tangible proof?

Perhaps there is.

Here, scattered throughout
the Scottish countryside,

can be found numerous ancient ruins.

Many appear to have been
forts or other enclosures,

dating back thousands of years.

Remarkably, they also appear to
have been subjected to fire and heat

so intense it practically turned
the stone structures into glass.

It's a process more scientifically
known as vitrification.

WILCOCK: Here you have
these stone buildings

in which an analysis of the outside

comes to the conclusion
that they were heated

to over 1,000 degrees
Celsius in temperature.

Conventional fire could
not have reached this heat.

You needed a sustained burn at 1,000
degrees Celsius for a long period of time.

NARRATOR: According to Celtic legend,

there once was a god named Lugh,

also known as the Shining One,

the Sun God, and the God of War.

Like the Greek god Zeus,

Lugh was said to wield a mighty magic spear

not unlike the thunderbolts
of his Greek counterpart.

TSOUKALOS: When battle was near,

Lugh would draw out his spear,

and it roared and then
flashes of fire came out of it

and it tore through the ranks of the enemy,

never tired of killing and slaying.

It was one amazing weapon.

I mean, how else can we explain
all those numerous vitrified forts

where the surface of the
stone is as smooth as glass?

And these spots can only be found

in very concentrated areas
through Northern Scotland.

All these descriptions of sophisticated
weaponry sounds almost like science fiction.

But is it really?

Because we have those weapons today.

And I think that all the
stuff that we have today

has been around before

and that our past is not
science fiction but science fact.

NARRATOR: Deadly laser beams.

Acoustic weapons.

Time machines.

Were these mysterious devices

really in the possession of our ancestors

thousands of years ago?

And if so, could they have been built
with the help of extraterrestrial beings?

Perhaps as our own technology
continues to advance,

we will come closer...
not only to our future...

but to a rediscovery of our past

and a reconnection with
our alien ancestors.

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